Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, has now walked away from his Twitter deal after offering to buy out the social media company for $44 billion. The world’s richest man has backtracked after a prolonged disagreement about the number of bots on the platform – a discussion which Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal got drawn into. He is now being sued for it and recently shared a meme bringing the matter to light. 

The 51-year-old entrepreneur is facing a lawsuit from Twitter for reneging on the agreement and the San Francisco-based company has retained the services of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to file a case against Musk at the Delaware Court of Chancery over his July 8 announcement to back out of the agreement. 

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Musk, who’s known to make a point with his memes, has outlined the timeline of events where he was told he couldn’t buy Twitter and then the social media company wouldn’t disclose their bot numbers. After this became a sticking point and Musk decided to walk away, Twitter now wants to force Musk to buy the company in court. 

The entrepreneur then says that Twitter will now have to disclose the bot numbers in court. In the course of the lawsuit, Musk’s side could ask for the bot numbers to be revealed as part of discovery. 

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According to American Bar Association, discovery is defined as the “formal process of exchanging information between the parties about the witnesses and evidence they’ll present at trial”. This is done to prevent one side from being ambushed at trial, when they would have to scramble for counter-evidence, upon being presented with proof or witnesses. Since the bone of contention between Musk and Twitter is the number of bots, it is likely to come up in the discovery stage itself, or during the trial.